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Marijuana law reform legislation is pending in over twenty states, and liberalization measures have been pre-filed in many more. Below is this weekÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s edition of NORMLÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Weekly Legislative Round Up Ã¢â‚¬â€ activistsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ one-stop guide to the latest statewide votes and happenings relevant to marijuana law reform.
For a listing of all of the pending marijuana...

Now I’m a full-blown opponent of the death penalty. I think it’s immoral, impractical, unfairly administered, and has way too much potential for error. I also reject the notion that a free individual can assign that duty to someone else (nominally called “the government”) and escape personal responsibility. I’m thrilled that...

Federal agents with guns drawn raided up to a dozen medical marijuana operations across Montana on Monday, the same day that a bill to repeal the state’s medical marijuana law stalled in a Senate committee.

NORMLÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s youtube channel, NORMLtv, recently launched a new video series entitled Ã¢â‚¬ËœAsk NORML,Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ which features NORML staff answering questions submitted by you Ã¢â‚¬â€ the marijuana law reform activist.
On this weekÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s installment, Executive Director Allen St. Pierre addresses the long standing myth that marijuana prohibition keeps America’s children safe.
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By Fred Gardner
Project CBD has just sent out its introductory pitch to California dispensaries. ProjectCBD.org is the medical marijuana movement living up to its name,” explains outreach coordinator Sarah Russo, optimistically, as she asks the dispensaries to participate in a “collective research effort.” But what are the chances that the dispensary owners, intent on...

It’s a tactic that the federal government has regularly used against us. Wear them out. Allow for a system of re-scheduling marijuana, but let it take 20 years to go through the process of appeals and denials and maybe we’ll just get tired of trying.